Hi Christian,

Good ideas - thanks. We've added an engineering item for these suggestions. a) can be done reasonably quickly. b) will take longer.

@BerndN5890

Can we ask how you arrived at that URL via navigating Patent Center?

Thank you Christian for the suggestion. We will pass this on to engineering for consideration. Keep the ideas coming.

@mike_appcoll Thank you for doing Learning Series tutorials on often overlooked features. But please also always consider why often overlooked features are often overlooked. Perhaps some eventual user interface tweaks will result in fewer features being often overlooked.

Thank you for the feedback.

Hi Jason,

Thank you for the suggestion. As a policy we don't automatically change the owner of tasks or automatically close tasks. We feel the potential for error is too great.

Hi there. Thank you for the suggestion. We will certainly look into this.

HI there. Thank you for your suggestion. You should be able to give attorneys access to only the billing module, so they can enter their time and nothing else. Would this not work?

Hi Christian,

Thank you for the suggestions. We will take this under consideration.

Hi there. Currently, we do not have a way to do this. Just so we understand, what might you add to multiple references?

@jonah-soundhound-com I use Patent Center. I haven't used EFS-Web for months. The missing fonts issue I mentioned above relates to Patent Center. I did not try uploading the IDS via EFS-Web. I agree, it does not make sense to spend engineering effort to help with problems in a system that is planned for deprecation. However, Patent Center is not planned for deprecation.

@SadiqA2304 I thought of that but was concerned that it might muck with triggering conditions if the task name was later changed to remove the "under development" text.

It would also mean that normal users would still see it and the under development tasks would still clutter up the interface.

@GreggH8509 Thank you!!

Hi George,

This is a great idea. We will explore this idea. Keep the suggestions coming.

@AnnM9156 thanks for your input. We use an arbitrary attorney reference number format which does not include a country code.

The transient task solution wouldn't really do much--just email the recipients once when the note is updated. Fast forward a month later, and nobody will remember that they received that email, and might miss whatever is important.

Your pop-up slap-to-the-face approach would be much more effective at getting a user's attention.